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VOLUME XXXVII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936
NUMBER 115
Sealed Bid Rushing Accepted
California Professor
Speaks Today at
General Assembly
Distant Spots of World
Are Topics of Scientist
R. W. Chaney; Classes
To Be Dismissed
Classes will be dismissed today
at 11 o’clock for a general assem
bly to hear R. W. Chaney, profes
sor of paleontology at the Univer
sity of California and nationally
known in his field.
Speaking on "A Scientist’s Ad
ventures in Mongolia and Central
America,” Dr. Chaney will be in
troduced by Professor Warren D,
Smith in the absence of President
Boyer.
Speaker Here Tuesday
The speaker arrived on the cam
pus yesterday in time to attend a
no-host dinner in his honor given
by Sigma Xi, national science hon
orary, at the Anchorage. He later
talked in 101 Condon on “Ancient
Forests of Oregon.”
On several of his expeditions to
far away corners of the world to
study fossils and flora, Dr. Chaney
has accompanied Roy Chapman
Andrews, world-famous explorer,
who spoke at Oregon several years
ago. In the course of these trips
the scientists has visited Central
and South America, Mongolia,
China, the Philippine^ Manchuo
kuo, Chosen, and Japan.
Although Professor Chaney has
never spoken before the University
student body, he is not stranger to
Eugene and its vicinity, having
been here to gather material for
a book on the flora of Goshen, a
small town 10 miles east of here.
Dr. Chaney, in speaking today,
will be the third in the group,
which has included Major-General
Smedley D. Butler and Dr. Edward
Alfred Stiener to speak to the stu
dent body at general assemblies
this term.
Faculty Attends
Spring Meeting
Five members of the faculty of
the school of physical education
attended the spring meeting of the
Oregon Physical Education associ
ation, which met at Mazama
Lodge, above government camp on
Mount Hood, Saturday, April 25.
Representing the University
were Miss Florence Alden, profes
sor of physical education, Miss
Janet Woodruff, associate profes
sor of physical education, Miss
Warrine Eastburn, instructor in
physical education, Miss Harriet
Thomson, professor of physical ed
ucation, and Earl Boushey, assis
tant professor of physical educa
tion.
About 56 teachers of physical
education in Oregon schools were
present at the conference. The dis
cussion was divided into sections
for teachers of physical education
in elementary schools, junior and
senior high schools, and colleges.
Mr. Boushey was in charge of the
college section.
Robert Krohn, who is retiring
after almost 50 years of physical
education work in Portland public
schools, was made an honorary
member of the association.
Polyphonic Choir
To Sing‘Requiem’
Biggest Music Event of the
Spring Season Is Friday
At 8 in Music Hall
Campus and city music enthus
iasts are expected to turn out in
full force Friday evening when the
University of Oregon Polyphonic
Choir presents Verdi’s “Requiem”
at the music auditorium at 8
o’clock. This is the bigegst musi
cal event of the spring season, and
one for which the 110 members of
the choir have spent many months
of preparation under the conduc
tor, Paul Petri.
Charles Fahey, tenor, is the only
one of the four soloists who is
now a student at the University.
Fahey is a member of Phi Mu Al
pha and of Sigma Nu.
Robert W. McKnight, who will
sing the bass parts, is a former
student at the University and is
now an instructor at Modesto Jun
ior College. Mr. McKnight arrived
in this city Tuesday for rehearsal
with the choir.
Soprano and mezzo-soprano
parts will be sung by Mrs. Flor
ence L. Murdock and Mrs. Bruce
Spalding, nee Josephine Albert.
Mrs. Murdock has directed church
choirs in Portland, Corvallis, and
Eugene over a period of several
years, and is director at present of
the Congregational church choir in
Eugene. She is one of the most
prominent vocalists in Corvallis
and is frequently heard in concert
programs and solos.
Mrs. Spalding is a former stu
dent in music at the University of
Oregon. She also has studied in
New York City and won the
Northwest district music contest
in voice of the Federation of
Music Clubs, representing that dis
trict in the finals at Minneapolis.
She is also a member of Mu Phi
Epsilon.
3 UO Students
Attend Convention
Ted Pursley, Earleen Grobelee,
and Betty Brown, University stu
dents, were numbered among the
Lane county delegation which at
tended the annual convention of
the Young Democratic League of
Oregon when it met in Salem last
weekend.
The Lane county club which now
has a total membership of 105 per
sons was awarded second prize of
$7.50 as a result of its activities
in the membership drive which all
of the clubs have been conducting.
A. Ray Martin of the Eugene club
was reelected treasurer of the
state organization.
Gov. Charles H. Martin spoke at
the banquet, as did several other
state officials and democratic
leaders. Gov. C. Ben Ross of Idaho
was also to have been present but
because of an automobile accident
a few days prior to the convention
was unable to attend.
Slugsy Gunn Tells Life History
In Bathtub Interview
By HOWARD KESSLER
From the depths of her sunken
bath tub, Miss Slugsy Gunn, win
some lissome would-be queen of
Junior Weekend, grinned becom
ingly as the door opened, and the
unannounced visitor appeared.
"Oh. it's you again,” she pouted,''
her face falling with a loud and
muffled "Oomph!" as she saw the
reporter. "I thought it was a
photographer.”
A vote-getting- picture Slugsy
did make, with the spotless white
enamel of her teeth showing off to
perfection and the reporter, her
luxuriant black-and-white head of
hair, raspberries-and-cream com
plexion, and blue denim overalls.
"Whaddya want now, son?” she
drawled, picking up her face, and
wiping her hands on it.
“What are you doing in there
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1SYA Checks Ready;
Students Requested
To Call at Window at 2
NYA student cheeks are non
ready and students may get
them hy calling at window two
on the second floor of the ad
ministration building. Students
are requested to call for them
at once.
Onthank Returns
From Minnesota
Dean Explains University
Problems at Meeting;
Studies Campuses
Karl W. Onthank, dean of per
sonnel, returned yesterday from a
several day’s visit at the Univer
sity of Minnesota where he had
been invited to discuss and explain
Oregon’s experiments in organiz
ing classes to coach student lead
ers.
While there Dean Onthank
spoke before a conference of ad
ministrative officers of the univer
sity, members of the personnel
staff, and student leaders on the
problems of the relationship be
tween staff and students. In addi
tion to this general meeting he was
called in to a number of confer
ences with the advisers of the
dormitories, with various faculty
and student committees, and with
numerous informal groups.
Several former members of the
University of Oregon’s faculty
were found on the Minnesota cam
pus. Among them was Dr. Harold
Benjamin, Dr. H. R. Douglas, both
of the school of education, and Dr.
Ralph Casey, head of the depart
ment of journalism.
The testing bureau, a means by
which Minnesota obtains a com
plete appraisal of the aptitudes and
abilities of students, was inspected
by Dean Onthank. In conjunction
with this system of testing is pro
vision for a systematic counseling
program, by which students are
guided throughout their college
life.
Returning by way of Seattle,
Dean Onthank stopped at the Uni
versity of Washington to inspect
the new health division building
and the new dormitory for women,
which is under construction. He
also took the opportunity to check
up on provisions there for guidance
and counseling.
Dean Onthank will leave today,
it is expected, for Portland to as
sume once more his duties as NYA
administrator for the state of Ore
gon and will not return to the
campus until Saturday or Monday.
Alpha Kappa Psi
To Choose Junior
A committee of students was ap
pointed by Ernest Savage, presi
dent of Alpha Kappa Psi, business
honorary, at a short business meet
ing last night to consider the names
of three junior students in business
administration, who are eligible for
membership in Alpha Kappa Psi.
The name of the junior student
chosen will be announced at the
organization’s annual banquet, to
be held May 12 at the Eugene
hotel.
Former UO Students
Get Magazine Mention
Two former students of the Uni
versity architectural school, Ed
ward Hicks and Manson Bennett,
received mention in Pencil Points
magazine for work submitted in
the Portland Cement Corporation’s
competition for small houses. All
prize-winning and honorable men
tion entries were published in this
architectural magazine.
Mr. Hicks is now working in an
'architect's office in Clarendon, Vir
ginia. Last year he attended the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. Mr. Bennett is also work
ing in an architect’s office in Port
land.
Junior Queen Candidates Will
Be Nominated by Vote Today
Side From 9 to 5
Selection Will Be Made
From 10 Highest Girls
This Friday
The search proceeds for the
most eligible junior woman who is
to reign over Junior Weekend.
Today from 9 to 5 a ballot box
will be kept in front of the College
Side for the ballots bearing the
names of Oregon's most queenly
juniors.
Every student body card holder
is entitled to vote on the ten
women receiving the most ballots
in today's nominations. Friday is
the date for the final elections on
the contenders for the queen’s
throne.
Candidate Must Be Junior
The nomination ballots to be
filled in today will bear the name
of one candidate, the only qualifi
cation is junior class standing. The
ten girls receiving the most votes
will be paraded about the campus
tomorrow noon.
Comment on eligible coeds for
the most likely nominees has been
confined to house discussions. Few,
if any, juniors have so far ex
pressed their intention of running.
Election Again on Friday
Last year’s court consisted of
Mary Morse, queen, and Dorothy
Ann Clark, Margaret Jean Cooper,
Marvel Twiss, and Frances Spence,
princesses. The successor to the
throne and her attendants this
year will remain secret until after
elections on Friday.
Assistants to Betty Coon, Chair
man of the queen’s reign, are
Lynne Latourette, transportation,
Rose Gore, secretary, and Bill
Pierson, assistant chairman.
Morrison Heads
Editorial Contest
James R. Morrison, junior in
journalism, has been appointed
general chairman of the Oregon
editorial contest, sponsored an
nually by Sigma Delta Chi, jour
nalistic fraternity. The Paul R.
Kelty-Sigma Delta Chi cup is
awarded to the editor of the Ore
gon weekly or semi-weekly who
has, according to the judges, ex
hibited the most noteworthy lead
ership through his editorial page.
The cup will be presented at the
convention of the Oregon State
Editorial association in Grants
Pass, June 18, 19, and 20. The
award was won last year by the
Lakeview Examiner.
Helen Lewis Is
Orides Chairman
Helen Lewis was appointed
chairman for the picnic to be given
with the Yeomen, at an Orides
meeting held Monday night. The
affair will be at Swimmer’s De
light some time in the near future.
Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean
of women, will be the speaker for
the next meeting, to be held May
11. She will discuss the various
scholarships offered womftn stu
dents at the University. All mem
bers are urged by Erma Huston,
president, to come and bring a
guest.
Campus •>
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Alpha Delta Sigma luncheon
Thursday noon at the Anchorage.
Kwama meets at 4:30 today in
the AWS room in Gerlinger hall.
All girls attending the paper bag
picnic of the 38-39 club meet at
the Westminster house at 5:30
today.
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| Junior Shine Day
(Plans Maturing
Committee Meets Today to
Pick Theme and Select
Definite Date
A theme and definite plans for
Junior Shine day, annual tradition,
will be chosen today when Chair
man Gilbert Schultz meets with his
Shine day committee at 2 in the
College Side today.
Schultz appointed Jean Favier
as his co-chairman. Others on the
Shine committee are; construction,
Vernon Buegler and Robert Dean;
equipment, Rex Cooper; shine
crew, Ralph Finseth; tickets, Hen
tyetto Mummey; publicity, Vir
ginia Endicott.
The date for the event has not
been set, but Schultz said that it
will probably be next week, before
Junior Weekend.
“We want to follow a theme in
Shine day this year, and we will
Choose one at the meeting,” Chair
man Schultz said.
Booths will be stationed around
the campus where students can get
shines of any color for a nominal
fee. Jim Blais was chairman of
Junior Shine day last year.
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i Special
Editors
Johnson, Tupling, Mildred
Blackburne Named as
Heads of 3 Papers
Clair Johnson was elected editor
of the men’s edition of the Emer
ald to be put out Saturday, May 9;
Mildred Blackburne, editor of the
women’s edition to come out
Thursday, May 21, and Lloyd Tup
ling, editor of the frosh edition,
Saturday, May 16, at an Emerald
staff meeting held in the shack
Tuesday, April 28.
The men’s edition will be put out
exclusively by men staff members,
the women’s edition by women
staff members, and the freshman
edition by both men and women
staff members who are also fresh
men. Editors are free to make any
changes they see fit, and to em
ploy the style they think best suit
ed to their edition, Bob Lucas,
present editor, announced.
Clair Johnson is present manag
ing editor of the Emerald, Mildred
Blackburne, editor of the college
exchange section, and Lloyd Tup
lihg ran the Calliope column dur
ing the recent political campaign.
Fred Colvig, next year’s editor
of the Emerald was introduced to
the staff, and it was announced
that he would make public staff
appointments at the annual Emer
ald banquet to be held shortly be
fore the close of school.
Oscar Gorrell, ’02
Dies in Roseburg
Helen Gorrell, freshman, was
called to Sutherlin today by the
d'»th in Roseburg of her father,
Oscar Gorrell, graduate of the Uni
versity of Oregon in 1902. Miss
Gorrell was accompanied by Mrs.
James Gilbert.
According to Dean Gilbert, Mr.
Gorrell was prominent in student
activities and athletics while on
campus, and was star end on the
varsity football team. He is sur
vived by his wife, a daughter
Ardis, graduate of the University,
and Helen.
Mrs. Gorrell was for many
years a teacher at Eugene high
school. Mr. Gorrell was formerly
superintendent of schools at Suth
erlin and at Reedsport.
Emerald
Chosen
Mothers Will
Desert Dads
To Visit UO
Students Asked to Write
Home Urging ‘Moms'
To Go Collegiate
Although hatching dads of Ore
gon students have threatened to
fill the sink with dirty dishes
while “mom” comes to University
to go collegiate for Mother's day
junior Weekend events, May 8-10,
their determination to visit their
sons and daughters has not been
lessened.
Documents carrying' columns of
material of sufficient interest, to
convince all that Eugene is the
place to come for Mother’s day
have been sent home by many stu
dents. Small blue folders contain
ing an invitation by Lucile Mc
Bride and Grace Peck, co-chair
men, and the general program
have been left at all living organ
izations by the speakers commit
tee during the last week. Inde
pendent students may secure these
invitations at the Co-op, it has
been announced. Personal letters
have also been mailed.
The University itself has sent a
four page issue of a miniature
newspaper, "Oregon News for Ore
gon Mothers," in which is outlined
briefly the achievements of the in
stitution during the past year and
a resume of events being planned
for their honor.
Competition is expected to be
keen between classes to import the
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YWCA Silver Tea
Given Yesterday
A silver tea honoring Mrs. John
Stark Evans was given yesterday
afternoon by members of the
YWCA and advisory board at the
YW bunaglow between the hours
of 3:30 and 5:30 o’clock.
In the receiving line were Mrs.
John Stark Evans, now YWCA
secretary replacing Betty 'Hughes
who left last week for Swathmore
college in Pennsylvania, Mrs.
Harry B. Johnson, chairman of
the affair, Mrs. F. M. Carter, re
tiring president of the advisory
board, Mrs. E. E. DeCou, newly
elected president, Mrs. C. L.
Schwering, dean of women, and
Elaine Cornish, YWCA president.
Mrs. Frederick M. Hunter, Mrs.
C. Valentine Boyer, Mrs. A. G.
Denniston, and Mrs. L. W. Knowles
poured.
Newest knit fashions, from golf
frocks to formals, modeled by co
eds, and several songs by the Eu
gene high school girls’ sextet were
program features of the afternoon.
Campus girls who modeled were:
Mary Ann Skirving, Florence
Weidmer, Jane Lagassee, Mary
Ellen Eberhart, Grace Peck, Eliz
abeth Ann DeBusk, Katherine
Larson, Irene Schaupp, and Har
riet Thomsen.
I JO Men May Get
Naval Training
Oregon men may have the op
portunity for training for enlist
ment in the naval reserve if ap
propriations for such training are
granted by congress, President C.
Valentine Boyer reported recently.
If the appropriations are made,
about 15 sophomores a year will
be chosen for instruction by the
navy department at two six-week
camps, one each summer.
Instruction will be an practical
seamanship, navigation, and gun
nery. Cadets will receive pay for
six weeks amounting to about $35
a month, with traveling expenses,
uniform, and subsistence paid by
the navy.
The camp will be either on
Puget Sound or at San Diego. This
training is not limited to ROTC
students, a sophomore standing is
the only requirement.
Ends Duties Here
H. V. Hoyt, who for th<> past
few years has been dean of the
sehool of business administration,
will complete his work at the Uni
versity with the end of the present
term. Dean Hoyt will go East
where he has secured another
position.
Dean H. V. Hoyt
Leaves Oregon
Professor Morris Is Nametl
Acting Dean of Business
Atl Department
Dr. H. V. Hoyt, dean of the Uni
versity of Oregon school of busi
ness administration since 1932, is |
leaving for the east at the end of I
the year to become production
manager of a large industrial con
cern in Philadelphia.
Prof. Victor P. Morris of the
economics department will be
transferred to the school of busi
ness as acting dean.
Professor E. B. Mittleman, of the
economics department, who has
been teaching in Oregon for 16
years will leave at the same time
for Washington, D. C., where he
will undertake a special research
for the federal government into
the effects of relief on labor. Pro
fessor Mittleman is widely known
as an expert labor economist.
Both men were granted “leave
without pay” at the Monday meet
ing of the state board of higher
education.
Other leaves granted University
faculty members are: M. H. Doug
lass, librarian, three months end
ing July 1, 1937, witii pay, Kathar
ine Karpenstein, law librarian, in
definite leave for study without
pay, and F. L. Stetson, professor
of education, three months leave
for preparation of state high school
manual.
Nomination Ballot
I hereby place the name of
on the ballot for queen of
Junior Weekend.
I
Council Votes
To Adopt New
Pledging Plan
Summer Affiliation Out;
Regulations Go Into
Effect Fall Term
Stamping its approval with a
landslide of affirmative votes, the
interfraternity council yesterday
afternoon adopted a sealed bid
rushing system. The new rushing
regulations will be placed in effect
next fall term.
Before accepting the plan, the
house presidents, assembled to
give it final consideration, struck
out provisions which would permit
summer pledging.
Pledge Is Included
Heading the new plan is a
pledge to abide by the rules set
forth in it. Council members are to
sign, pledging the support of their
chapters in upholding the regula
tions.
Violations of the pledge are to
be reported by the head of any
house to the council’s tribunal by
1 o'clock of the first week day
following rushing week.
Reported cases will be consid
ered on the following day. Appeals
may be made to the student ad
visory committee.
Social Probation Penalty
Refusal to abide by the appealed
decision would result in social pro
bation for the offending house for
one term.
Under the sealed bid plan of
rushing, the rushee will mark a
list of houses, indicating his pref
erence. Each student must mark
at least three choices. The bids
which are turned in for the rushee
will be compared with his pref
erence list and he will be consid
ered pledged to the house which
has bid for him and which ranks
highest on his preference list.
Prep Rating fined
In accordance with the Univer
sity’s ruling, no man with a prep
decile rating of one will be eligible
to pledge.
Violation of pledging rules
would mean forfeiture of the right
to initiate a man unlawfully
pledged, prohibition of the man so
pledged from living in the house
of that member, should he become
initiated in that fraternity, or a
fine of from $1 to $25. All three
penalties might be imposed.
Regulation of the number of
dates and the hours are outlined
in Metail in the plan, along with
other rushing and pledging pro
visions.
Pi Hap Says “No”
The council’s affirmative vote,
with only one house, Pi Kappa Al
pha, voting for rejection of the
regulations, marked the attain
ment of the second of its major
objectives of the year.
At a recent meeting, a new con
stitution was accepted to replace
one which during the past two
years has proven ante-dated and
unwieldly.
Revision of rushing rules became
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Junior and Senior Women Join
For Sunday Event
Sunday, May 3, another Univer
sity of Oregon traditional event
will take place when junior women
of all houses and dormitories will
honor their senior sisters at the
annual junior - senior breakfast.
The affair is aranged by the
YWCA and will be held in Ger
lingcr hall at 10 o'clock.
Housemothers, honored guests,
and juniors and seniors will par
take of the traditional strawberries
and other breakfast delicacies. The
motif “Expansion” has been chosen
as this year's theme because of
the rising library, and other con
struction projects apparent on the
campus, as well as with the idea
that senior will "exapnd” into new
Fields and positions after gradua
tion.
Before the breakfast a harpist
has been secured to furnish music,
and Mrs. E. E. DeCou and Mrs.
Virgi! D. Earl will be the main
speakers. Mary McCracken, presi
dent of the senior class, will re
spond for the senior women to
Elaine Cornish’s welcome and good
luck farewell from the juniors.
The junior-senior breakfast be
gan in the days of Mrs. P. V.
Campbell, wife of the University
president, who invited both juniors
and seniors to her home on May
day for strawberries.
When the University grew to
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